Thursday, 25 October 2012

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Pixilation


During our lesson today we were given a task we created a stop motion animation and the idea was to create a short animation between 5 seconds and 10 seconds so we thought of an idea to make a student of our group to unzip his jacket but when we played the whole animation back it looked like his actual jacket unzipped itself to make the feel of the video creepy and feel like someone has unzipped his jacket but could not be seen in the video which added that weird paranormal feel to it, we involved a method of stop motion called pixilation which means a series of captured images taken for exactly 12 frames per second and we did this for 5 seconds so in total that was 60 frames for a short animation.

The way we exported the overall video was we exported all of the images into one video by exporting out of istopmotion by exporting the video out as a mp4 file format as we just wanted the actual animation exporting and not to change the overall file render format to for example HD 720p we just went with the set render settings to give us the video we wanted.

And then we got the embedded code from the actual youtube video and we pasted it into our blogs which gave us a video embedded in our post about pixilation,


Thursday, 11 October 2012

Animation 1950s - 1970s

Animations from 1950s - 1970s



  • Cinderella


Cinderella was a disney animated movie which was made in 1950 by a guy called Charles Perrault which was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by RKO Radio Pictures which is about a girl who gets bullied by her "Evil twin sisters" which made her do all the house work and choirs for themselves, and then she gets invited to go to a ball but her twin sisters wont let er and then she eventually goes to the ball but loses her show so the prince of the ball trys to find the girl with the missing shoe.













  • Popeye Old King Features
Popeye old king features was a animated television series which was first aired in the 1960s and was one of the earliest animated popeyes aired, but then they continued with the cartoon and made it right up to the year 1978 which Hanna Barbara took the show and made it into hour long series. 










Thursday, 4 October 2012

Animations - 1930-50s

There are loads of different animators back in the day between the years of 1930s-50s, one of the main animators was called:

  • Norman Maclaren
He made animations which had a abstract style to it for instance shapes that moved with the music which meant every beat or big sound a piece of abstract animation would move or animate to it.


This was a piece of abstract animation called neighbours, it was about two neighbours fighting over a flower with a series of different animations, video animation, stop motion animation and still photo animation. All these different animations were used to create the amazing piece of animation which is still very famous to date.


  • Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer was also an animator/film director and producer, he was most famous for animations such as betty boop, popeye and spiderman as he brought them kind of animations to the movie screen and was also an inventor which meant that he was also famous for inventing numerous technological inventions such as the rotoscope, here is an example of my favourite animation he has made:

The reason why i have chosen this kind of animation is because i like the way it transitions from Popeye being in real life and walking from real life in the page of the book and showing the animation through the book page which is pretty unique and original at the time, and that's what really caught my attention compared to other animations as these animations are really smooth.

  • Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry was a animation based series which came out in the 1940's and was made by two men called William Hanna and Joseph Babera making a series based on a rivalry between a mouse and a cat and throughout each episode of this series it always has some mischievous pranks on both the mouse and the cat but mainly on the cat as the cat usually is the one who gets angry first and chases the mouse.

I really loved tom and jerry as a kid and thought that it was a really good choice of animation to pick as its very smooth and enjoyable to watch at any age and really the overall animation from which were made by William and Joseph are really smooth and has brought a way of rivalry animations based on two characters.

  • Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes is a animation cartoon series which started off in the year 1930's and is still getting made to this current day, as looney tunes overall is a very popular animation based cartoon series as it is associated with a company called "Warner Bros"

I picked looney tunes as the other choice of animation as both looney tunes and tom and jerry are very popular all over europe and are still getting made to this current day and still have come up with so many different ideas and not just repeated some ideas which were made back between 1930s to the 1950s and still are continuing to make original ideas to date.